A few days ago, I received an email from Change.Org regarding this certain petition calling So. African government to declare "Corrective Rape" as a hate-crime and punishable by law. After reading the article below and looking at this woman's pain, I immediately felt the need to not only sign the petition but share it with the world. No human being should be subject to such malicious treatment. By not punishing such crimes, the So. African government fails to protect its people and the women of their communities. A lot of these "Corrective Rape" victims have committed suicide due to the lack of help from their government and community. This is just unacceptable, point blank period ... regardless of what part of the world this takes place in, just unacceptable behavior towards one another. Please sign and/or share the story so that hopefully this gets the attention of the authoritative figures in So. Africa that can actually help make a difference.
Sign petition here:
http://change.org/petitions/view/south_africa_declare_corrective_rape_a_hate-crime
(Excerpt taken from story at
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/south_africa_declare_corrective_rape_a_hate-crime )
The South African government and justice system are failing the victims of Corrective Rape by letting the perpetrators out on ridiculously low bail, and taking literally years to bring the court-cases to a conclusion. In the meantime the victims have to live with seeing and being taunted and threatened by their rapists every day, as do those who help the victims!
In the last 10 years:
*31 lesbian women have been murdered because of their sexuality
*More than 10 lesbians a week are raped or gang raped in Cape Town alone
*150 women are raped every day in South Africa
*For every 25 men accused of rape in South Africa, 24 walk free
